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Ms. Mun Tak Yang, also known as Marjorie, is a Partner, China and Advisor at Redpoint Ventures. Ms. Yang focuses on Redpoint Ventures's operations in China and on investment strategy, deal sourcing, government relations, corporate development, and portfolio company operations. She has held various management positions within the Esquel Group since joining Gillette Company in 1978. She was a founding member of Esquel in 1978, and was appointed the Chairman and Chief ... Executive Officer in 1995. She is also a Business Advisor to the Chairman of SembCorp Industries Ltd. of Singapore. Ms. Yang serves as the Chairman of Esquel Enterprises Limited and Esquel Group. She serves at Credit Suisse AG. She has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Swire Pacific Limited since October 2002. She has been a Director of The Gillette Company since 1998. She serves as Director of Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc. She serves as Member of Advisory Board of Asia of Christie's International SA, Christie's International Plc, and Christie's Inc. She serves as a Director of The Conference Board Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, BlueDot Capital Pte. Ltd., Pacific Century Regional Development Ltd., and Wuxi International Service Pte. Ltd. Ms. Yang serves as a Member of International Advisory Panel of Capitaland Ltd. She has been Vice Chairman of CAEFI since 2004. She served at The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited as Independent Non-executive Director. She is a Director of Associates and a Member of Advisory Board of Harvard Business School and a Member of the Advisory Board of the MIT/China International Management Education Project and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Harvard University, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management, Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, Fudan, and Lingnan Universities. In Hong Kong, she is the Chairman of the Hong Kong-United States Business Council, Chairperson of the Advisory Committee on Admission of Quality Migrants and Professionals. In addition, she serves as Chairman of the Asia Business Council and Deputy Chairman of the Seoul International Business Advisory Council. In 2010, she was appointed as Chairman of the Council of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She served as a Director of Novartis AG from 2008 to February 2013. She served as a Non-executive Director of HSBC Bank PLC. She was named as one of the Fortune magazine Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Business. She is concerned with the promotion of education, with a particular interest in the development of young managers. Ms. Yang holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Pure Mathematics from MIT.

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